The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.